Best Acting Performances of the Decade 2000's
Submitted by TonyKotlarek on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 21:01
- Actors:
- Tony Leung Chui-wai for In The Mood For Love (2000)
- Tom Hanks for Cast Away (2000)
- Damon Wayans for Bamboozled (2000)
- Ryan Phillippe for Gosford Park (2001)
- Ricardo Darin for The Son of the Bride (2001)
- Nanni Moretti for The Son's Room (2001)
- Michel Piccoli for I'm Going Home (2001)
- Ryan Gosling for The Believer (2001)
- Aurelien Recoing for Time Out (2001)
- Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- Olivier Gourmet for The Son (2002)
- Adrian Brody for The Pianist (2002)
- Nicolas Cage for Adaptation. (2002)
- Ralph Fiennes for Spider (2002)
- Campbell Scott for Rodger Dodger (2002)
- Daniel Day-Lewis for Gangs of New York (2002)
- George Clooney for Solaris (2002)
- Leonardo DiCaprio for Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- Alessio Boni for Best of Youth (2003)
- Paul Giamatti for American Splendor (2003)
- Mario Van Peebles for Badassss! (2003)
- Bill Murray for Lost in Translation (2003)
- Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Owning Mahoney (2003)
- Hayden Christianson for Shattered Glass (2003)
- Russell Crowe for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
- Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
- Tony Leung Chui-Wai for 2046 (2004)
- Joseph Gordon Levitt for Mysterious Skin (2004)
- Damian Lewis for Keane (2004)
- Bruno Ganz for Downfall (2004)
- Paddy Considine for Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
- Birol Unel for Head-On (2004)
- Christian Bale for The Machinist (2004)
- Javier Bardem for The Sea Inside (2004)
- Leonardo DiCaprio for The Aviator (2004)
- James Caviezel for The Passion of the Christ (2004)
- Kevin Bacon for The Woodsman (2004)
- Ryan Gosling for The Notebook (2004)
- Louis Garrel for Regular Lovers (2005)
- Bill Murray for Broker Flowers (2005)
- Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Angel Tavira for El Violin (2005)
- Ion Fiscuteanu for The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
- David Strathairn for Good Night, Good Luck (2005)
- Russell Crowe for Cinderella Man (2005)
- Jake Gyllenhaal for Jarhead (2005)
- Eric Bana for Munich (2005)
- Orlando Bloom for Elizabethtown (2005)
- Jeff Daniels for The Squid and the Whale (2005)
- Nicolas Cage for The Weather Man (2005)
- Morgan Freeman for An Unfinished Life (2005)
- Sam Shephard for Don't Come Knocking (2005)
- Elijah Wood For Everything is Illuminated (2005)
- Ricardo Darin for El Aura (2005)
- Viggo Mortenson for A History of Violence (2005)
- Glen Hansard for Once (2006)
- Romain Duris for Inside Paris (2006)
- Louis Garrel for Inside Paris (2006)
- Mads Mikkelson for After the Wedding (2006)
- Christian Bale for Rescue Dawn (2006)
- Cillian Murphy for The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
- Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson (2006)
- Vin Diesel for Find Me Guilty (2006)
- Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat (2006)
- William Oldham for Old Joy (2006)
- Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland (2006)
- Javier Bardem for No Country For Old Men (2007)
- Josh Brolin for No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Tommy Lee Jones for No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Louis Garrel for Love Songs (2007)
- Greg Timmermans for Ben X (2007)
- Mathieu Amalric for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
- Emile Hirsch for Into The Wild (2007)
- Cornelio Wall for Silent Light (2007)
- James McAvoy for Atonement (2007)
- Guillaume Depardieu for The Duchess of Langeis (2007)
- Kurt Russell for Death Proof (2007)
- Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
- Colin Farrell for Cassandra's Dream (2007)
- Sam Riley for Control (2007)
- Robert Downey Jr for Zodiac (2007)
- George Clooney for Michael Clayton (2007)
- Adam Sandler for Reign Over Me (2007)
- Benicio Del Toro for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
- Joseph Gordon Levitt for The Lookout (2007)
- Richard Jenkins for The Visitor (2007)
- Tadanobu Asano for Mongol (2007)
- Tony Leung Chui-Wui for Lust, Caution (2007)
- Ryan Gosling for Lars and The Real Girl (2007)
- Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon (2008)
- Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler (2008)
- Benicio Del Toro for Che (2008)
- Souleymane Sy Savane for Goodbye, Solo (2008)
- Red West for Goodbye, Solo (2008)
- Johannes Krisch for Revanche (2008)
- Michael J Smith Jr for Ballast (2008)
- Mathieu Amalric for A Christmas Tale (2008)
- Greg Kinnear for Flash of Genius (2008)
- Francois Begaudeau for The Class (2008)
- Clint Eastwood for Gran Torino (2008)
- Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds (2009)
- Actresses:
- Maggie Cheung for In The Mood For Love (2000)
- Bjork for Dancer in the Dark (2000)
- Laura Linney for You Can Count On Me (2000)
- Lena Endre for Faithless (2000)
- Sylvie Testud for Murderous Maids (2000)
- Juliane Kohler for Nowhere in Africa (2001)
- Halle Berry for Monster's Ball (2001)
- Sissy Spacek for In The Bedroom (2001)
- Isabelle Huppert for The Piano Teacher (2001)
- Maggie Dollenmayer for Funny Ha Ha (2002)
- Julianne Moore for Far From Heaven (2002)
- Samantha Morton for In America (2002)
- Ana Claudia Talancon for The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
- Nia Vardalos for My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
- Nicole Kidman for The Hours (2002)
- Rebecca Romijn for Femme Fatale (2002)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal for Secretary (2002)
- Susan Sarandon for Moonlight Mile (2002)
- Nicole Kidman for Dogville (2003)
- Sarah Polley for My Life Without Me (2003)
- Anna Geislerova for Zelary (2003)
- Emmanuelle Beart for Strayed (2003)
- Rachel Weisz for The Shape of Things (2003)
- Julie Delpy for Before Sunset (2004)
- Zhang Ziyi for 2046 (2004)
- Imelda Staunton for Vera Drake (2004)
- Sibel Kekilli for Head-On (2004)
- Catalina Sandino Moreno for Maria Full of Grace (2004)
- Emmanuelle Devos for Kings and Queen (2004)
- Leleti Khumalo for Yesterday (2004)
- Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Nicole Kidman for Birth (2004)
- Rachel McAdams for The Notebook (2004)
- Q'Orianka Kilcher for The New World (2005)
- Clotilde Hesme for Regular Lovers (2005)
- Shu Qi for Three Times (2005)
- Miranda July for Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
- Debbie Doebereiner for Bubble (2005)
- Ellen Page for Hard Candy (2005)
- Kirsten Dunst for Elizabethtown (2005)
- Susan Sarandon for Elizabethtown (2005)
- Amy Adams for Junebug (2005)
- Charlize Theron for North Country (2005)
- Zhang Ziyi for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
- Elizabeth Reaser for Sweet Land (2005)
- Sarah Jessica Parker for The Family Stone (2005)
- Julie Christie for Away From Her (2006)
- Marketa Irglova for Once (2006)
- Kate Winslet for Little Children (2006)
- Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal (2006)
- Penelope Cruz for Volver (2006)
- Laura Linney for Jindabyne (2006)
- Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006)
- Ludivine Sagnier for Love Songs (2007)
- Asia Argento for The Last Mistress (2007)
- Nurgul Yesilcay for The Edge of Heaven (2007)
- Keira Knightley for Atonement (2007)
- Jeanne Balibar for The Duchess of Langeis (2007)
- Angelina Jolie for A Mighty Heart (2007)
- Katherine Heigl for Knocked Up (2007)
- Ellen Page for Juno (2007)
- Halle Berry for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
- Anamaria Marinca for 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007)
- Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose (2007)
- Michelle Williams for Wendy and Lucy (2008)
- Meryl Streep for Doubt (2008)
- Kristin Scott Thomas for I've Loved You So Long (2008)
- Maria Onetto for The Headless Woman (2008)
- Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
- Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married (2008)
- Catherine Deneuve for A Christmas Tale (2008)
- Martina Gusman for The Lion's Den (2008)
- Melissa Leo for Frozen River (2008)
These are the performances that I thought were the best of the decade.